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Diors At Work

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

After a long enough wait, Motorola Mobility has unveiled that Motorola XOOM without 3G to be arriving soon, on 27th of March.
After lackluster sales of Motorola XOOM 3G, even without the iPod 2 attack, the Motorola XOOM was beyond the the reach of many consumers with $800 but the new lower price, $599 Motorola XOOM for 32GB WiFi might sway me away from a similarly equipped and similarly priced iPad 2, just to get away from draconian Apple measures. But what I do not understand is why Motorola lack market analysis brains. They had a good product and yet lost to Apple with it's iPad 2 Surge! I am sure there is a way Motorola could jump back on the road, hope they know how!

Press Release;

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – March 16, 2011 –Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc.(NYSE: MMI), today announced the upcoming availability of MOTOROLA XOOM™Wi-Fi edition from leading retailers across the United States starting March 27. Amazon.com, Best Buy, Costco, RadioShack, Sam’s Club (select locations), Staples and Walmart will be offering the 10.1-inch widescreen HD tablet with Android™3.0 (Honeycomb) through both online and retail store channels. The MSRP for MOTOROLA XOOM Wi-Fi with 32 GB of memory will be $599.

“MOTOROLA XOOM is a truly innovative tablet – its design, coupled with being the first tablet to have Android 3.0, results in a user experience that is one-of-a-kind,” said Dan Papalia, vice president of retail sales for Motorola Mobility. “We are now continuing to expand the choices available to consumers with the MOTOROLA XOOM Wi-Fi to be available soon from numerous leading retailers in the United States.”

In addition, the MOTOROLA XOOM Wi-Fi will be available to commercial IT channels and regional retailers through a distribution agreement with Synnex Corporation, and regional carriers through Brightpoint, Inc.

As the first device running Android 3.0, MOTOROLA XOOM benefits from our aggressive work with developers across the ecosystem through MOTODEV, Motorola’s developer support program to enable world-class tablet and smartphone experiences. These devices will be able to access more than 150,000 applications within the Android Market as well as the rapidly increasing number of applications optimized directly for the Android 3.0 OS. In addition, thousands of Flash-based web applications and sites will become available for the MOTOROLA XOOM.

As a part of the company’s commitment and leadership -- along with Google’s -- to the Android ecosystem, Motorola announced a series of global developer events in 11 cities across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. These MOTODEV events give developers access to tools, support and Motorola's team of Android experts. The first of these events was hosted in San Francisco on March 1 and had more than 665 developers in attendance.

MOTODEV also recently announced a new testing and certification program for Honeycomb applications, encouraging developers to submit their applications to get early feedback and support on MOTOROLA XOOM performance. This is a part of the company’s ongoing commitment to supporting the ecosystem in delivering high quality experiences to the consumer.